Whos your favorite author? do you have more than one?

List as many of them as you want. who are your favs?

Mine would have to be...

1.) Neal Shusterman
2.) Garth Nix
3.) Tamora Pierce
4.) Anne McCaffrey

These are just a very few of my favs...what are yours? :neko:

1) issic azimov
2)Terry pratchet

i just tend to read whatever take my fancy, like 'hagakure', 'the art if war', 'ulysses' (do not read) and 'of mice and men'

There are too many. Some are Tolkein and L'Engel (wrote Wrinkle in Time).

Keep in mind I'm only 14 and I don't get much into reading.

1) Robert Jordan
2) David Gemmell

im really into Robert Jordans Wheel of Time series at the mo. great heroic fantasy if anyone is into that.

i have several, though i like dave duncan and george r.r. martin best.

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*ponders*

John Steinbeck
Lewis Carroll
J.K Rowling
Madeleine L'Engle
C.S Lewis

Those are just a few of my favorites...I love to read ^_^

Terry Goodking and Stephen King are some of my favorite Authors.

gotta be stephen king

1) Peter F Hamilton
2)Terry Pratchet
3) Neil Gaiman (yes he usualy dose comic but the scripts are amasingly well written)
thats about it for the moment

Brian Jacques (Redwall series)
Dan Brown (Angels&Demons, The Da Vinci Code)

Originally posted by nightmare@Aug 20 2004, 01:27 PM
Terry Goodking and Stephen King are some of my favorite Authors.
isnt it terry goodkinD?

cuz i like him also. j.k,.rowling, Margaret Weis, Tolkien.

Anyone reads Mercedes Lackey ?

My favourite authors are Douglas Adams and Joseph Conrad. Douglas Adams is hilarious, brilliant and has an extremely easy writing style. Joseph Conrad uses the english language like a paintbrush and just makes the most perfect word pictures imaginable.

My fav. author would be Piers Anthony, ranking first. He is like 70 and still WRITING! ^_^ His best series would be Xanth (29 books and on going) series and his second (7 books.) would be the Incarnations of Immortality. BTW, both of the above mentioned will be appearing in the movies!!! YAY! Xanth will be shown in 2006 (boooo....) and Incarnations of Immortality next year.(yippee) Piers Anthony is quite humourous, which can be seen in the books.

My second fav author would be Mercedes Lackey with her Bard Tales Series. And also, R.A. Salvatore with his excellent description of the battle scenes. I also like one of the series written by Terry Brooks. :D

well hmm I like stepohen king but alot of his books aren't good...

1. anne rice

Scott O'Dell, Dan Brown, and Douglas Addams.

I'm trying to stay away from books though, since I still have to do my summer reading. No offense to those who like the authors, but I dying of boredom from reading Of Mice and Men and The Old Man and the Sea.

Do fanfiction and non-published authors count? *sweatdrop*

Kouri and Karasu (http://fatalistic.net/knkfics). Their originals are AMAZING (especially their Fallen Into Grace trilogy, which they are currently working on. You have to befriend to their fic journal (http://livejournal.com/users/knkfics), though, if you want to read the latest). Their fanfiction is fun too.

Aishuu (http://fanfiction.net/~aishuu) is cool also. She's my model. XD She is a journalist, which is very awesome. She tends to focus on fanfiction more, though, and she doesn't want to be published (her job as a reporter doesn't count). She mostly writes to her fic journal (http://livejournal.com/community/quillofferings) also.

Douglas Adams
Tanith Lee
Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman
and maybe some others.....those are who I immediately think of when I got to a book store (when I'm not looking for manga :sweatdrop: )

terry prattchet
neil gaiman (i introduced his books to phenix)
neal stephenson
neil gaimans sandman books are brilliant

1)Isaac Asimov (all books are great, Foundation)
2)Terry Pratchet (short stories)
3)Molly Brown (short stories)
4)C.S. Lewis (narnia)
5)Lewis Carrol (wonderland and through the looking glass)
6)Diane Duane (Book of Night with Moon,to visit the queen)
7)L'Engel (Wrinkle in time)
8)Margarett Mitchel (Gone with the wind)
9)Hemingway (For whom the bell tolls)
10)Mark Twain (Tom Sawyer Huckelberry Finn)
11)Dante (inferno)

:sweatdrop: all of these are great authors (i read a lot)

oh and
12)the author of "the Hitchhikers Guide to.."
13)author of "Childhoods End"
14)author of "The light of other days"

hmmmm,

R.A Salvadore: Drizzit anyone?

Robert Jordan: Wheel of Time, DUH!

Margret Weis & Tracy Hickmen: Dragonlance!

Sarah Douglas: Wayfaerer Redemtion, Got Axis?

Lloyd Alexander: Tarrand Wanderer...

J.R Tolkein: Whats he right again... :rolleyes:

Mercedes Lackey: Geeee, owl / grphyn what!

Michael Chricton: Come on, has a crap load of classics

I really enjoyed the Harry Potter Series when it ifirst came out, and was a fan from the begaining but lost interest when it became such a fad..

IM sure i can go on for a lot longer about other authors in Forgoten Realms/Dragon Lance/ Ravencrowft and other fantasies but those above are my favorites,

I don't really think one author is better than the others, in my list of authors.

John Steinbeck - "Of Mice and Men" and etc.
J.R.R. Tolkien - "Silmarillion"
George R.R. Martin - "A Song of Ice and Fire"
Terry Brooks - "Heritage of Shannara"

@ alone.....the author oh hitchhiker's guide is Douglas Adams....and yes, he rocks!

Most of my fave authors have already been mentioned, but I'll say em again
-Mercedes Lackey
-Tamora Pierce
-Terry Pratchett
-Terry Goodkind
-Laurell k Hamilton
-Nora Robert/J.D Robb

In no real order:
C.S. Lewis
Shakespeare
Faulkner
Lloyd Alexander
Phillip Pullman (He writes extrodinarily well, but I don't really approve of his "A Child's First Guide to Atheism," known more commonly as His Dark Materials.)
I'm not a big Tolkein fan.

sorry if i misspell some of them
garth nix
jrr tolkein
anne mekafry
cs lewis
brian can't spell his last name.

ya thats them

::edit::
it's brian jacques
ya thats him

I read a lot of Technothrillers and Military Fiction (Tom Clancy, Dale Brown, Stephen Coonts, Larry Bond, etc.), Religious History (anybody know any decent books on Shinto and Japanese Buddhist history?), pretty much anything on Military Aviation (esp. as it relates to plastic scale modeling) and Military history. I also like various "children's" books like Rowling's "Harry Potter" series, Margery Sharp's "Miss Bianca" series and Robert C. O'Brien's "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH". (I'm a huge fan of Don Bluth's animated adaptation "The Secret of NIMH"...) :worshippy: